From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 11 8:41:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruhr.de (in-ruhr2.ruhr.de [141.39.224.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89CF037BF53 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ue@nathan.ruhr.de) Received: (qmail 3959 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2000 15:43:47 -0000 Received: (from ue@localhost) by nathan.ruhr.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA21197; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:42:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ue) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:42:15 +0200 From: Udo Erdelhoff To: Ben Smithurst Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TAB vs 8. Spaces (was Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml) Message-ID: <20000811174214.K3413@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <200008051641.JAA35521@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000809191120.G3413@nathan.ruhr.de> <20000809200735.G48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000809200735.G48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:07:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:07:35PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Are you sure? It looked that way when I looked over the diff > ben@magnesium:~/bsdwork/FAQ$ diff -ubB book.sgml faq-formatted | wc -l > 16935 > ben@magnesium:~/bsdwork/FAQ$ diff -u book.sgml faq-formatted | wc -l > 18721 That's an example of the one weakness of unified diffs... > i.e. even ignoring white space changes it's still pretty damn big. :-( Well, large parts of the FAQ didn't have proper formatting, that may be one of the reasons. My initial check showed that there were about 1300 lines with TABs in the old version, about 2700 lines starting with '<' and approx. 50 lines ending with a TAB or space. The new version has 45 lines starting with '<', most of them within entities where whitespace and linebreaks are significant (programlisting, screen, literallayout, pre and address). It seems I'll have to check that diff line by line to find out what caused the changes. Ah well, better than another battle with Cisco's IOS... /s/Udo -- "Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers." - Benjamin Franklin, ca. 1776 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message